Picker&#39;s and packer&#39;s bag.



J. D. YEATES. PICKER'S AND PAGKERS BAG. APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 19,11.

1,085,887. Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

' WW I are JAMES DOUG-ALL YEA'IES, OF BAIRNSIDALE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

IICKERS AND PACKERS BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 3,1914.

Application filed May 5, 1911. Serial No. 625,268.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES DOUGALL learns, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, 8110., residing at Bairnsdale, in the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pickers and Packers Bags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improved pickers or similar bags, which can be easily filled, the discharge of the contents into a receptacle being easily controlled.

My bags may be of any predetermined suitable sizes, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The figure is a front elevation of a bag made according to my invention and, adapted for thereception, grading and discharge of fruits of a plurality of sizes, quality, or kinds. In this view one of the discharge tubes is shown doubled up frontward preparatory to further doubling and hooking or like fastening as explained hereinafter.

b is a bag front; its top a a is made or shaped so that the bag mouth will naturally gape open when the bag is worn by a person, as by any suitable connection or fastening. Thus it is a loop, and z' are rear straps-either is attached to the bag at will, and passed around the wearers neck. The front top aforesaid thus sets lower than the top, 0 o of (l the bag back. This arrangement facilitates the filling, and allows of the bag back maintaining a convenient smoothness in use.

Around the rim or top is or may be binding, or other strong durable finish.

The bag body has no discharge device to the external air but it is provided with one or a plurality of discharge tubes f, f each narrower t an the bag body, but of any convenient size and form, tapering or otherwise. There are, when required, one or more partitions, such as a forming bag body compartments, into which to fill fruit or goods which it is desired to grade or classify. Each tube enables discharge and guidance of goods, without too rapid discharge into the desired fruit case or receptacle. The tube has'the advantage of preventing the fruit or material from dropping from the bag body base, uncontrolled. Any considerable drop would injure the keeping qualities or market value of the fruit or goods; the tubes being long enough to afford guidance and prevent such damage. The person in chargecan readily set a tube base at or near the base of a fruit-case or receptacle to be packed, and then allow the fruit or goods to descend, and gradually fill the case, without the goods being damaged. The user can fill into each side of a partitioned case simultaneously; or if preferred at separate times, by aid of tubes f, f

IVhen a bag having my tube is used it has the advantages that the person employing it can apply his hands to the said tube and so control the passage of fruit or goods downward within it. The hands can shift or regulate the tube direction from time to time to cause the discharge to be varied or directed to any desired part of the receptacle to be packed.

The tube is wholly or partly of flexible material, as canvas or rubber, and of any suitable texture or weight.

Handles may be used, or loops, attached to the tubes to enable them to be readily controlled. Any number and length of handles may be provided, for example one to each leg as at 70.

In the figure hooks m, m are shown on the bag body front, and rings Z, Z on the backs of the respective legs or tubes about half way down their length, to enable any tube to be folded up, closed, and supported from the hooks m, m

Of course while the filling of the bag body is in progress, each tube is closed.

The bag as it fills, bulges out more or less according to the dimensions of the bag itself. To better affix the bag it is well to have a strapping or connecting device from the bag body (well below its top) about the wearers waist. Thus 29, is a strap for this purpose.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is In a fruit pickers or similar bag, the combination with a bag portion having a partition dividing the same into separate receiving compartments, a discharge tube of appreciable length for each compartment connecting with the bottom thereof, means for suspending the bag on the person of the user and so that it will hang in front of the users body, handles above the lower ends of the discharge tubes for manipulating the latter and the tube and the bag, substantially as and directing the discharge of the fruit, tube described.

suspending devices on one side of the bag In witness whereof I have hereunto set and a tube attaching device on that side of my hand in the presence of two witnesses. the tube opposite to the corresponding side JAMES DOUGALL YEATES. of the bag on which said suspending device VV'itnesses:

is disposed, whereby the open end of the bag GEORGE G. TUmu,

may be folded inwardly between the body BEATRICE M. Lown.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." 

